Sean Lahman
Communications Specialist
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSean Lahman is a communications specialist and data-savvy journalist with 12 years of experience blending investigative reporting, digital storytelling, and software development. He has produced award-winning watchdog journalism and multimedia content while designing relational databases and writing code in Python, R, PHP, and JavaScript. At SABR he managed data projects for over a decade, translating historical baseball research into structured, reproducible datasets—an unusual bridge between sports scholarship and technical data work. Now serving as Communications Specialist for Monroe County in Rochester, NY, he brings newsroom rigor to public-facing communications and data-driven transparency. His background spans newsroom reporting, digital publishing leadership, and early software development at Kodak, reflecting a rare mix of editorial judgment and technical depth.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of CincinnatiFBI Citizens Academy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
sports-data10
espn9
historical9
open-data8
data-collection6
r-package6
sql6
database6
mysql6
r3
Github contributions (5)
seanlahman/baseballdatabank
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 10 months
historicalopen-datadatabankbaseball-datadata-collection
seanlahman/patent_scraper
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
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